NYT Books in Review: “The Man Who Owns The News,” “Panic,” “The Ascent of Money”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Carr-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
The Man Who Owns The News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch, by Michael Wolff
“Wolff takes no specific offense at Murdoch’s willingness to use his media properties to cold business ends, but depicts him as a cranky, monomaniacal newspaper hack, a con man with bad hearing, no interest in new media paradigms and no real friends to speak of.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Gross-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, edited by Michael Lewis
“Michael Lewis collects journalism on the past 20 years of market madness – and finds a pattern…A blog showing how someone bought a $1.157 million house with $270 down neatly encapsulates the lunacy.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Hirsh-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
The Ascent of Money: A Financial Hsitory of the World, by Niall Ferguson
“Niall Ferguson argues that finance has weighed heavily on the outcome of history’s big events.”
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